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Layla-Majnu a Musical Play in Three Acts, PDF eBook

Layla-Majnu a Musical Play in Three Acts PDF

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But Mr. Maker]: has given us more than a scene out of Indian life; he has transmitted something of its a'sthetic genius.

Not only is there here much of the tone of the great Indian classics, but something of the spirit of them is transmitted in a way that wins the favor and sympathy of the reader of a wholly difierent cultural background.

T his is a consider able and none too common achievement, for the aesthetic genius of any people of genuine individu ality is sensitive, and is frequently unable to survive in the process of translation.

If he great classics of a remote culture like India's when overturned into English, are, unless the translator have rare power, apt to seem dull and fantastic.

For those of us who are not attracted to these, a capital introduction to them and a fair appreciation of the spirit of the foreign culture may be acquired through literary works written in our own tongue by writers born into the ancient culture, nourished on its traditions, dis.

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